Art in the Park a Field Guide a Field Guide to Art in the Park 2 3 Using This Guide

3 ART IN THE PARK A FIELD GUIDE A FIELD GUIDE TO ART IN THE PARK 2 3 USING THIS GUIDE Queen Elizabeth Olympic This book is a field guide to the 31 permanent and temporary artworks in the Park. There’s a map at Park was the first Olympic the back and each artwork has a number to help you locate them. Going to find the artworks is just Park to integrate artworks as important as all the reading and looking you can into the landscape right from do here. the start. We worked with These artworks have been made to be experienced in the landscape – up close and from afar. Touch established and emerging them, sit inside them, run across them, walk beneath them. Gaze up, make games, take photographs, put artists, international and local, yourself in their shadow. to create an ambitious, diverse art programme that reflects the Park’s identity as a place for people from around the world and around the corner. Some of these artworks are large and striking, while others are smaller and harder to find. All of them were created specifically for this Park by contemporary artists who worked closely with the architects, designers and construction teams to develop and install their works. Their inspirations are varied: the undulating landscape, buried histories, community memories, song titles, flowing water, energy, ideas of shelter and discovery. Yet all of them are rooted here, each of them sparking new conversations with their immediate environment and this richly textured part of east London. “The trees mark time, the rings 2 3trace landscapes and lives that HISTORY TREES have gone before.” Ackroyd and Harvey Ackroyd and Harvey British artists Ackroyd and Harvey created a series of living artworks to mark the main entrances of the Park. Ten specimen trees, chosen to reflect the biodiversity of the Park, each support a large bespoke metal ring within their crown. The rings, engineered from bronze or stainless steel, are six metres in diameter and individually engraved on the interior face with text capturing an archive of history from each location. The ring on the Metasequoia nearest the London Aquatics Centre is inscribed with local residents’ recollections of the area. To mark the opening of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games the shadow cast from the ring aligns each year with a bronze ellipse laid into the ground. For the full inscriptions of each of the rings visit ackroydandharvey.com. History Trees was supported by Mapping the Park to at entrances locations Ten Your Manor, a project by artist Lucy 1 Harrison, who worked with local people to record shared stories and memories. These personal accounts informed the words on the rings – a way to remember the stories of the Park and its surroundings. To download recordings from the project visit mappingyourmanor.com. Supported by Arts Council England Sawn Cattle Bone / Manufacture Of Buttons / Buried Olympic Running Track / Two Paleolithic Hand Axes / World War Two Memorials / Roman Burial Vault / Coins Caesar To Constantine / East London Waterworks / Temple Mills Stream / Yellow-Faced Bee / Songthrush And Starlings / Japanese Knotweed Extract from one of the engraved rings Jo Peel paints the Lea Navigation Canal that 4 5 runs opposite her mural LIVING WALLS and between the Park Various artists and Hackney Wick Living Walls is an ambitious art programme, stretching over two kilometres in nine different locations and featuring 40 new artworks created specifically for the Park. Crafted with the active participation of residents, schools and organisations in the local community, these works bring an epic scale to the recognisable forms of street and mural art. Commissioned artists include Ben Eine, David Shillinglaw, Mark McClure, Jo Peel, Jeremy Deller, Ruth Ewan and David Batchelor among others. Living Walls was curated and produced by Moniker Projects and Create. The scale of this project meant that the artists planned each metre of their works meticulously in advance, while also remaining flexible in the ever-changing landscape of the Park. Their works Various locations Various respond to the immediate parameters of these outdoor surfaces, as well as 2 expressing the different visions each artist had for their commission. “Ordinary hoardings have been transformed into diverse artworks, bringing character and energy to the Park, and connecting it to the local area.” Frankie Shea, Director, Moniker Projects “Living Walls brought some of the many visual languages of the streets of east London into the Park. We were pleased to involve over 100 artists and hundreds more local residents in the process.” Hadrian Garrard, Director, Create 6 7 Living Walls Living Walls THE REVIEW TAPESTRY Ben Eine David Shillinglaw Corner of Temple Mills Lane and Honour Lea Avenue and Honour Lea Mills Lane Temple of Corner 2 Where the Bayeux tapestry meets modern London, Shillinglaw’s Carpenters Road, between London Aquatics Centre and Carpenters Lock and Carpenters Centre Aquatics London between Road, Carpenters wall captures this changing area 2 of east London, as told through the voices and visions of the local community. Prolific, enigmatic street artist Eine’s inspiration is the proposed plan Artist David Shillinglaw expresses a vivid, Ben Eine has created his for a new cultural quarter on the Park. playful, multicultural intrepretation of east He painted adjoining adjectives in his largest mural yet, stretching a London, drawing on more than 150 stories Iconic symbols draw on Ancient Egyptian iconic trademarked circus font, merging gathered in the run-up to and legacy of hieroglyphs and children’s board games, monumental 400 metres and descriptions and anticipation of what was the London 2012 Games by journalist, while intricate details and quotations bringing together past, present here, and what is still to come. Eine’s work producer and presenter Anna Delaney. suggest social context, evidence of and future. appears in many locations in London, Paris, Over the course of four months, Delaney Shillinglaw’s urge to document and capture Stockholm, Hastings, Newcastle, and even interviewed local people in social spaces the world around him. the White House, famously gifted by David such as tea dances, community hubs and Cameron to Barack Obama in 2010. schools, which informed ‘Tapestry’. 8 9 Living Walls Living Walls UPHOARDING MEET ME IN THE CITY Lea Valley Walk, south of Monier Bridge of south Walk, Valley Lea Mark McClure 2 Jo Peel Lea Valley Walk by The Slipway and White Post Lane Post and White The Slipway by Walk Valley Lea Sustainability, recycling and 2 This significant new commission upcycling are celebrated in this from artist Jo Peel realises her artwork which reclaims the term signature cityscapes and ‘hoarding’ to mean keeping things paintings of local landmarks for a future purpose. in three dimensions. Artist Mark McClure transforms salvaged Meet Me in the City is an impressive materials into something of beauty and depiction of a love story lost in the use across 210 metres of hoarding, making complexity of a growing city, and the visible the process of reuse and recycling. A local artist, McClure works from ever-evolving area of Hackney Wick Buildings emerge from the painted lines, Geometric wooden tiles are interspersed Walthamstow and employed a number across the canal. An accompanying stop- views are revealed through tiny windows – with a series of 10 intricate ‘beacon’ of local apprentices in the making of motion animation brings this love story look closely and the hoarding is rich with artworks, like vertical sculptures, which this artwork. alive through lost messages and passing detail and story. have been crafted from waste timber ships in an ode to the perfection of an sourced from the transformation of Queen imagined relationship. Watch Peel’s stop-motion animation at Elizabeth Olympic Park and local businesses. livingwalls-london.com/meet-me-in-the-city Living Walls 10 11 YOUR AD HERE Various Artists Your Ad Here is a celebration of the local independent businesses that are such an integral part of east London’s community and economy. Thirty-five artists partnered up with 35 local businesses from car- washes to corner shops, bakers to hairdressers. Launched in April 2014 to mark the reopening of the whole Park, the adverts celebrate the individual characters who make up the rich and diverse local economy around this changing part of London. The businesses and their artists: Aryubi Express Genica Ear Nana Café Nat & Lew Barnes & Webb Olivia Whitworth Newham Bookshop Bridget Meyne Bikeworks Year 9 pupils, Rinkoff’s Bakery Uddin & Elsey Kingsford Community School Rockalily Cuts Claire Guiller Blackhorse Workshop Rosie Eveleigh Smallholders Bruce Ingram Charlie’s Barbers Josh McKenna Snap Paul Pateman Choosing Keeping David Batchelor Star Hand Car Wash Samara Scott Community Links Benjamin Murphy Stepney City Farm Mason London E. Brooks & Sons Fruiterers Hannah Dickins Stour Space Nick Creber E.W. Moore & Sons James Brown The Butcher’s Shop Pixel Press Finger Licking Lucas Price The Hackney Pearl We Are Laura Hardwick Textiles Karen Colley The Railway Tavern Jon Barker outside the Energy Centre, by Lane Post – On White locations Various DLR Pudding Mill Lane by Lane on Marshgate Arena, Box the Copper Hornbeam Café Damien Weighill The Who Shop Takayo Akiyama 2 Hoxton Trust Colin Priest Toor Supermarket Lucy Woodhouse La Forchetta Lauren Godfrey Trevi Restaurant Jeremy Deller Let’s Roll Year 9 pupils, Turning Earth Ceramics Ian Giles Kingsford Community School Vinyl Pimp Begoña Toledo London Coaching Foundation Antony Ward Voodoo Ray’s Zak Keene Lot One Ten We Love Trainers Ashley McCormick Sebastian Harding William Morris Gallery Jeremy Deller Mother Studios Marie-Louise Jones Wilton’s Way Year 9 pupils, Mother’s Hub Ruth Ewan Kingsford Community School “There’s a tradition of sculpture 12 13 doing a job.

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